Oh my. Very, very strongly:
“Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast – as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth…
Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up…
Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block…
Though I am free and belong to no man, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible…
So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall!…
‘Everything is permissible – but not everything is beneficial. ‘Everything is permissible’ – but not everything is constructive. Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others…
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. Do not cause anyone to stumble…
Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain…
Do everything in love…”
1 Corinthians 5:6-8; 8:1b, 9; 9:19; 10:12, 23-24, 31&32a; 15:58b; 16:14
God through Paul had some things to say to me this morning. I can either “humble myself before Him” (James4:10a) or “those who walk in pride He is able to humble.” (Daniel 4:37b)
You are a good Father.